A particularly opulent example was owned by Federigo da Montefeltro, perhaps inspiring him to include Ptolemy in the famous men of his Studiolo; another was presented, together with an inscribed sphere, to Rene d'Anjou, King of Naples, then living in France, by Jacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice, then Governor of Padua.

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